New Delhi: Pitching for the government’s flagship Digital India campaign in front of a global audience, External Affairs Minister SushmaSwaraj on Friday said that India is committed to an open, safe, secure, inclusive, democratic and dynamic cyber space. “The Digital India programme is focused on three key vision areas,” SushmaSwaraj said while delivering the valedictory address at the closing ceremony of the Global Conference on Cyber Space (GCCS) 2017.
“One, infrastructure as a utility to every citizen, two, governance and services on demand, and three, digital empowerment of citizens,” she said.
SushmaSwaraj said that the Digital India programme has the potential to truly transform India from a developing to a developed knowledge economy.
She also pointed out that the very dynamic and evolving nature of cyber space has brought cyber issues to the centre-stage of development polity, crime preventionand investigation, expansion of economy and trade, national and international security.